Carton or package.



. Na 7|4,a6s.` Patented Dec. 2, |902.

J. F. CARVER & J. L. STURTEVANT. CARTON 0H PACKAGE.

` Appxiction mea May e, 1902.) (No Model.)

l NTTED `TATES 'l FETCH.

JOHN E. CARVER, OE BOSTON, AND `.JOSEPH LEWIS STURTEvANT, OE QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOHS TO `HENRY THAYEH AND COMPANY, OE CAMBRIDGEPOHT, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MAINE` CARTO N O R PAG KAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,668, dated December 2, 1902.

Application filed May 6, 1902. Serial No. 106,186. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN F. CARVER, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and JOSEPH LEWIS STURTEVANT, residing at Quincy, in the county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartons or Packages, of which the followingisaspecificatiomreference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its object to provide a carton or package for holding medicines, tablets, lozenges, or other articles, andwhich carton or package will comprise a wrapper formed of one piece of thin cardboard, `stiff paper, or other Suitable material and having ends with infolding flaps. and a sliding tray or drawer also provided with infolding fiaps to cover a folded circular, picture, or other article in the top of the tray or drawer and overlying the other articles placed therein, so thatthe ends of such folded circular, picture, or other article will be covered by the infoldingflaps of the tray or drawer in such a manner thatin tucking in theinfolding iiaps of thewrapper said last-named iiaps will be protected from interference with the folded circular or other article overlying the contents of the tray or drawer.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of one form of a carton or package constructed in accordance with the invention, and Fig. 2 is asimilar view illustrating another form of the invention. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the carton or package shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. Liis a detail view of a wrapper-blank such as may be `used in either of the forms of the cartons or packages shownin the other views.

Referringto `the drawings, @denotes atray or drawer consisting simply of a coverless box,of pasteboard or other thin and somewhat sti material. The said tray or drawer is provided at its ends with infolding flaps, which may consist of inturned ends b, of a bent strip c of cardboard orheavy paper, said strip loosely surrounding the box or tray a, or the said infolded iiaps may be permanently attached to the box or tray a by pasting pieces of paper b on the ends of the said tray or boxfand folding in the loose upper ends of the pieces of paper to form the infolding flaps o2, as in Fig. 2. In the construction shown in Fig. 1 the loose surrounding strip c of heavy paper or cardboard is preferably provided with a tab d, formed by making a cut in the end portion of the said strip, so as to leave the said tab hinged at one part to said strip in such a manner that it may be turned down, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, so as to form a handle to pull on when it is desired to removed the tray or box from the package.

The tray or box a is enveloped in a wrapper formed from a one-piece blank of thin cardboard or other material, such as is shown in Fig. 4, and which before being creased and folded to form the envelop or wrapper for the box may be printed, so as to cover its entire exposed parts when disposed as a folded wrapper for the tray or box with any suitable descriptive or advertising matter. This wrapper will comprise parts 1 and 2, which will form the top and bottom parts, respectively, of the wrapper when the said Wrapper is disposed about the tray or box; the parts 3, which will form the sides of the folded wrapper; the parts flaps 4, which will form the exposed ends of the wrapper, and all of these parts may be covered with any suitable printed matter. The wrapper will also comprise parts 5, which will be turned in against the ends of the tray or box. These parts 5 are shown as being attached to the side parts 3; but they may, if desired, beattached to the end parts il, and in the folded wrapper they will be concealed by the said end parts iiaps 4. The parts 1 or the part 3 at the other side of the wrapper may be provided with a iiap 6, which will be overlapped by one ofthe side portions and which side por-A tion will be pasted or guinmed to the said flap 6 to give a tubular construction to the wrapper for the reception of the telescoping drawer or tray d. The end portions" flaps 4 of the wrapper are also provided with flaps 7,

which are to be folded or turned in over the infolded end flaps b or b2 of the drawer or tray a.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the invention provides a carton or package comprising an envelop or wrapper formed of one piece and all of the exposed portions of which may be covered with suitable printing-matter and a telescoping tray or drawer within the wrapper and which drawer or tray is provided with in tlolding flaps b or b2, which may or may not be permanently attached thereto, but which will in the assembled or completed form of the package overlap and protect any loose folded circulars or other articles, as e, which may be placed upon the underlying contents ofthe package,and thereby prevent interference between the ends of said loose articles and the infolded aps of the enveloping wrapper when said infolded `iiaps are being tucked in.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. A carton or package comprising a sliding drawer or tray having at its ends infolding top iaps which overlie and protect the contents of the drawer,4in combination with a wrapper formed of one piece and into which the said drawer or tray may slide or telescope endwise when the wrapper has been closed lengthwise, said wrapper having end portions each of which comprises an end flap to close the end of the package, and, attached to said end fiap, an infolding top Hap, said top flaps, in the completed assembled form of the package, overlying the said infolding end iiaps of the said tray or drawer.

2. Acarton orpackage,forcontaining medicines or other small articles, comprising a l sliding drawer or tray a furnished at its ends with infolding top aps which overlie and protect the contents of said drawer, in combination with a wrapper into which the said drawer or tray may slide or telescope endwise when the wrapper has been closed lengthwise,

said wrapper comprisingtop and bottoni parts 1 and 2, one of which parts is provided with the iap 6, the side parts 3, the end iaps 4, and infolding top aps attached to said end aps 4, said flaps 4 closing the ends of the package and said top iaps overlying the said drawer or tray flaps.

3. A carton or package comprising an inside sliding drawer or tray having one or more inwardly-folding end aps to overlie and protect the contents of the drawer, combined with a wrapper into which the said drawer or tray may slide or telescope endwise when the wrapper has been closed lengthwise, said wrapper having a fiap or aps to close the end or ends of the package, and, attached to said end fiap or aps, an intuckng flap or iaps overlying the iiap or iaps of the said tray or drawer.

4. A carton or package comprising a tray or drawer combined with a one-piece wrapper folded to form a boX into which the said tray or drawer may be slipped or telescoped, said wrapper having infolding end and top aps to cover and retain said telescoping drawer in place.

5. A carton or package comprising a onepiece wrapper of folded cardboard or other suitable material, into which, when the ends of said wrapper are not folded, a tray or drawer may be telescoped, combined with a separate folded piece placed about said tray or drawer so as to overlie and protect the contents thereof, said proecting-piece carrying a folding handle-piece by which said tray or drawer inclosed in said protecting-piece may be drawn from its folded wrapper when an` end of the folded wrapper is opened or unfolded.

In testimony whereof we afx our signatures in presence of two witnesses. JOHN F. CARVER. JOSEPH LEWIS STURTEVANT, Witnesses:

LLOYD MAKEPEACE, J As. W. CURRIER. 

